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Will Americans Vote for Muslims? Cultural Outgroup Antipathy, Candidate Religion, and U.S. Voting Behavior
Ist Teil von
Politics and religion, 2018-12, Vol.11 (4), p.798-829
Ort / Verlag
New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Quelle
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Beschreibungen/Notizen
We assess how likely Americans are to support political candidates
who are Muslim, and the extent to which support for Muslim
candidates is structured by “cultural outgroup
antipathy”—generalized antipathy targeting cultural outgroups. We
employ two survey experiments included in the 2007 and 2010
Cooperative Congressional Election Studies that juxtapose a
hypothetical state legislative candidate's Muslim faith with Arab
ethnicity, African American race, and both Democratic and Republican
party affiliation. Identifying a candidate as Muslim significantly
reduces voter support and that reduction is largest among people
with higher levels of cultural outgroup antipathy. The effect is
consistent regardless of whether the candidate is also identified as
being Arab or African American or is just presented as a Muslim. We
also find that cultural outgroup antipathy diminished electoral
support for same-party Muslim candidates among Democrats but not
among Republicans.